- Title
- Social anxiety mediates the relationship between social connectedness and test anxiety : an exploratory investigation
- Creator
- Kavanagh, Bianca; Harvey, Jack; Mesagno, Christopher
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/177131
- Identifier
- vital:15227
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.14
- Identifier
- ISBN:2475-0387 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This preliminary study explored the relationships and mediation structure among social anxiety, social connectedness, and test anxiety, among Australian higher education students (N = 189). Results indicated that students who experienced higher social connectedness were less socially anxious and more inclined to experience higher test anxiety. Additionally, social anxiety was positively related to test anxiety. Exploratory mediation analyses revealed that social anxiety mediated between social connectedness and test anxiety. Social connectedness did not mediate between social anxiety and test anxiety. It is concluded that social connectedness protects against threats of relational devaluation and decreases social anxiety. However, due to the social component of test anxiety, these threats may persist when the examination has potential for relational devaluation to occur. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Inc.
- Relation
- Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology Vol. 1, no. 2 (2017), p. 60-69
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 1999-2021 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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